Correspondence and manuscripts of Paul Bowles, American author and composer of operas, film and stage scores, ballets, songs and chamber music.

Paul Bowles (1910-1999) was an American author and composer of operas, film and stage scores, ballets, songs and chamber music. Bowles studied music with Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson and began to write at the encouragement of Gertrude Stein. Although born in New York, Bowles spent much of his adult life in his adopted home of Morocco. Many of his novels and short stories focus on life in Morocco from the perspective of both natives and foreigners. Bowles also worked as a translator, working on English versions of French, Spanish, Italian and Moroccan originals. He earned numerous grants, awards and fellowships throughout his lifetime, including an American Book Award nomination. Bowles was married to the playwright Jane Auer Bowles (1917-1973). He died in November 1999, in Morocco.Lonnie Burr (born 1943) is an American actor, entertainer, and writer. Burr met and became friends with Paul Bowles in 1968 as a student in a class taught by Bowles.

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